What Really Helps: Using Mindfulness and Compassionate Presence to Help, Support, and Encourage Others Wegela Karen Kissel
What Really Helps: Using Mindfulness and Compassionate Presence to Help, Support, and Encourage Others Wegela Karen Kissel Most of us, at one time or another, would like to help a friend, family…
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What Really Helps: Using Mindfulness and Compassionate Presence to Help, Support, and Encourage Others Wegela Karen Kissel
Most of us, at one time or another, would like to help a friend, family member, or acquaintance through a challenging time. And why do our best efforts at helping others often come up short? But do we really know how to give meaningful support and guidance?
We must develop greater awareness, steadiness of mind, fearlessness, and self-compassion. Here is a practical guide that will be of special interest to helping professionals--and anyone who wants to make a positive difference in the lives of people they care about.To be truly helpful to others, Karen Wegela explains, we must begin by focusing on ourselves. Only then can we extend these qualities to the people we'd like to help.
Drawing on her experiences as a psychotherapist and on her longtime study of Buddhist meditation, Wegela emphasizes the benefits of mindfulness, or learning to become fully present in our moment-to-moment